10 Mar 2005 trs80   » (Apprentice)

It seems Google has no sense of humour these days (I assume it had one in the past). First it puts the kybosh on AdBar, then it removes Greg Duffy from its results for writing an article on how to extract entire books from Google Print. Yes, both these violate their ToS ... but with the kerfuffle about AutoLink in the Google toolbar and who controls a webpage, what's to stop a user doing what they want with data that Google freely serves to them? (And yes, I know that argument is specious, but it's a good starting point).

In other news, good to see that there's a lot of discussion going on about MoFo and Seamonkey 1.8 and Firefox reviewers. I would like to claim to have been the person to start the 1.8 flam^Wdiscussion ;-)

Skipped a lecture to fix something at UCC this week (morwong just wanted a cuppa tea, a Bex and a good lie down) for the first time this semester, but it's only week 2. Which isn't that promising - I need to stop spending quite so much time in the clubroom, particularly at night. Also need to find a supervisor, 4th year project and write a proposal for it in a week, after the last two lecturers I sought out couldn't take me on. Gnome 2.10 release party tonight, will be nice to relax in between the many fresher welcomes this week.

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